Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century t...

The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs Pitmat...

A hands-on approach to historical linguistics, working through 101 problems in five different categories This workbook guides students through 12 p...

Until the 20th century, dialect was a marker of economic, social and cultural change. We know that the North East maritime connections with the Dut...

This book takes a journey into the fascinating world of numerical systems in South Asian languages, offering a unique exploration of the intricate ...

The Victorians and English Dialect tells the story of the Victorians' discovery of English dialect, and of the revaluation of local language that w...

In Europe, and later in the United States, the revitalization of the philosophy of language emerged from the need to address certain perplexities c...

Volume VII of the Etymological Dictionary of Old High German contains the lemmata series Q - Ska ( quaderna - skazzôn ). In this volume, as in th...

'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-...

Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores,...

This book contains chapters which are classified into three major themes, namely Dialectology Studies in Indonesia, Sociolinguistics Issues in Java...

Spanish remains a large and constant fixture in the foreign language learning landscape in the United States. As Spanish language study has grown, ...

Spanish remains a large and constant fixture in the foreign language learning landscape in the United States. As Spanish language study has grown, ...